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As Rolen performs the ritual, it definitely tickles at each of your memory banks. It's similar to a rhyme, or part of a rhyme, or maybe exactly something you've each heard your nannies or Grands sing cheerfully in the past. Maybe as a part of a game? Or as background noise during simple childhood play?
Anyway Rolen speaks the words and by his motions, and posture, and look of satisfaction he must place belief or power in this thing that you understood to just be a nursery rhyme or child's jape.
The ritual takes a bit of time, but once it's complete it doesn't take long before
something happens...
It begins as a small bulge in the ground, and quickly turns into a small sprout.
That sprout continues to push up out of the ground, and from below it - like the sprout were hairs on it's head - rises a plant-creature!
It is mottled and dark, and indeed, looks just like the animated shrubbery that you all have fought on two prior occasions now!
The thing shrieks, like splitting wood, once it's fully emerged! And it clearly tries to flee, but it is trapped within the bounds of the circinated stones that Rolen placed upon the ground! And so it curls up and lays on the ground, still creaking like branches in the wind...
